单词 | altarstead |
释义 | > as lemmasaltarstead altarstead n. the place where an altar stands. ΚΠ 1724 T. Wearing Serm. Opening St. Andrew’s Church Penrith 20 in Two Serm. A private Subject..who vow'd his Threshing-floor for an Altar-stead. 1868 W. Morris Earthly Paradise 94 Hung up as relics nigh the altar-stead. 1918 Irish Monthly Mar. 126 The tower arches give the altar-stead a mystic remoteness. 2001 S. C. Karant-Nunn in T. A. Brady & E. Müller-Luckner Die deutsche Reformation 169 Blocking up the old altarstead was an effort to relegate every idolatrous supposition that this site itself held out the divine to believers. < as lemmas |
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